The ROGERS Family History
Most authorities agree that the name Roger, Rogers, is derived from the word Hroud in Frank; Hrother is the North and Ruhm in the modern German, meaning fame or glory. Historical tradition associates the name with all that is true and noble; another meaning ascribed to it is "one whose word is reliable." Others claim that the name is derived from the French, since we read that Roger l, Count of Sicily and Calarbria, and the founder of the Norman dynasty in the countries, was born in Normandy, France, about 1031. This suggests that the English Rogers families were possibly originally Norman French and went to England with William the Conqueror.
John Rogers The Martyr
Reverend John Rogers, the Martyr of the Anglican Reformation during the Marian Period was born in 1507 near Birmingham, County Warwick, England. He was educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, receiving his BA degree in 1525. That same year he was chosen to the Cardinals College at Oxford, made a junior canon and soon thereafter went into the holy orders in the Roman Catholic Church.
On his conversion to Protestantism, Rogers determined to publish the entire Bible in the English language. It was printed at the Antwerp Press and there are three original copies in the British Museum. Rogers lived in Wittenburg, Germany for 11 years, returning to England upon the accession of Edward VI to the English throne. He diligently labored in the work of the church until the accession on Queen Mary to the throne, when on Sunday after her triumphal entry into London 16 July 1553, he preached a sermon at St. Paul’s Cross wherein he exhorted the people to adhere to Protestantism. This sermon was the beginning of his end and he was summoned before the Privy Council because of it. Rogers was sent to Newgate Prison in 1553/4 and remained there a year. He was brought again before the Privy Council in January 1554/55 and condemned and sentenced as an excommunicated heretic to be burned to death at the stake. The sentence was carried out on 4 Feb 1554/5. He was offered a pardon if he would renounce Protestantism but refused. (sources: "The Rogers Family of England" by John Cox; "John Rogers, The Compiler of the First Authorized English Bible, the Pioneer of the English Reformation and its First Martyr" by Joseph L. Chester; and "Families Directly Descended From All the Royal Families in Europe")
The ROGERS Family Line
James Rogers (b. 1615 d. 1687/8) married Elizabeth Rowland
Samuel Rogers (b. 12 Dec 1640 d. 1 Dec 1713) married Mary Stanton
Samuel Rogers ll (b. 22 Dec 1669 d. 2 Feb 1743) married Abigail Plumb
Samuel Rogers lll (b. 1702 d. ?) married Lucy Denison
James Rogers ll (b. 8 Feb 1739 d. 28 Sept 1820) married Zilpha Hyde
James Rogers lll (b. 18 Oct 1765 d. 25 Jan 1816) married Sarah Coit
George Tyler Rogers (b. 3 Dec 1799 d. 15 July 1869) married Elizabeth Pelot
Cornelius Decatur Rogers (b. 2 April 1835 d. 28 May 1917) married Mary Ellen Murchison
Margaret Murchison Rogers (b. 29 Dec 1863 d. 1 June 1933) married James Tinley Ryder
Mary Ella Ryder (b. 16 June 1894 d. 19 July 1961) married Z. L. Chancellor
Margaret Ryder Chancellor (b. 25 July 1924 d. 27 Oct 1988) married Lewis G. Bowdoin
Margaret Ellen Bowdoin (b. 29 July 1957) married Robert Floyd Lewin
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